apocalypse now

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

Drama ꞏ War ꞏ guerrilla warfare ꞏ epic ꞏ vietnam war ꞏ journalist ꞏ mission ꞏ vietnam ꞏ vietcong ꞏ central intelligence agency (cia) ꞏ cambodia ꞏ army ꞏ drug abuse ꞏ based on novel or book ꞏ secret mission ꞏ insanity ꞏ surrealism ꞏ tribe ꞏ green beret ꞏ jungle ꞏ descent into madness ꞏ brutality ꞏ riverboat ꞏ military ꞏ anti war